Comments

Comment by Morlis

Very nice guide, gave me lots of good ideas. I have beat them but I was shaky on a few of my wins. I would have definitely used many of these ideas though. :)

Comment by Aysea

Great guide, helped me a lot.

Comment by DONalex

I can only say tanks :), for sharing .

Comment by Rhorykhaz

worked like a damn charm, thank you very much :)

Comment by Guanyin

Yu'la is soloable with Mr Bigglesworth. It takes time but almost always works. Use bonkers or another pet with humanoid abilities as back up.

Claw > Barrier > Ice tomb > Pass > Claw > Claw > repeat.

Comment by Sabsy

This guide has worked perfectly so far. My only suggestion is that some of the pets don't have to be rare. I did it with a green Legs, Scourged Whelp, and Mechanical Pandaren Dragonling. Thank you for taking the time to put this together!

Comment by Akilahsoo

Chrosta,Your guide is excellent and I highly recommend it to any player wanting to complete The Celestial Tournament.Thank you very much for taking the time to share your knowledge and experience. Clearly you put a great deal of time and effort into not only learning the tactics but writing the guide.

Comment by Anganamar

Thank you very much for this guide.I would also like to add that your "GHWS" tactics works perfectly on Beasts of Fable.I have managed to win, following same tactics you used on Chi-Chi, against ALL Fabled Beasts BUT No-No.

Comment by madmurdock

Ok, having solved the tournament first try speaks enough for this guide. Thanks a lot for creating it. If i have time and feel like it i will level a second GWHS combi to have less tension during the fights - especially if you are already in the second stage. :)

Comment by DieserK

i dont get it how do i heal my pets with stinker after the fights? can he use his heal outfight?

Comment by Zivjr

Guide was really helpful and helped a lot. Took a little while to get all the pets I needed for it. I guess that is normal, though. Beat it first time I did it.

Comment by diminished808

I am a little confused with one area in this strategy. That is to do with the Scourged Whelpling. It is used to defeat Goldbloom, however during your strategy it dies (continue with till Scourged Whelpling dies.) and then it is used again against Wrathion later in the tournament. Is there some way that you are bringing your pets back after dead or do we need two for this strategy?

Comment by DriesnMajoor

Guys, I need a substitution for Legs. It's not really obtainable on my server right now, nobody is selling it.Has anyone got any ideas?

Comment by ineptone

If you can't find a stone to upgrade your mechanical pandaren dragonling, he's still usable as uncommon in the tournament with this strategy.

Comment by Lythoras

Great guide! Successful on first attempt. And my Chrominius was only level 23! Thanks for your thoroughness.

Comment by Nightprowl3r

Great guide mate, thanks.Excellent job, really, best guide I found for Celestial Tournament.

Comment by BuffNTuff32

Brilliant. Thank you. Just got my first win.

Comment by Jermin

Unfortunately I didn't have a Viscidus Globule for the Chen Stormstout fight so I substituted it for chuck and just ripped and used blood in the water and the fight was over quick.

Your strategy with the Celestial bosses was great however by the time I reached Yu'la the pets were near death; so I used Peddlefeet, Anubisath Idol, and Clock'em. Someone had mentioned a similar strategy starting with Peddlefeet and using perfumed shot first to see if it stuns and forfeiting if not. I ended up never having to bring clock'em into the fight.

Comment by Sasmina

Best. Guide. EVER! - Thanks so much mate! :D

Comment by boulderfish

SUPER GUIDE! Thanks so much.

After I assembled the whole team of 18 pets and won the tournament, I realized there was a bit of a shortcut I could have taken. If you want to get started as soon as possible, enter the tournament, observe which of the three groups (1, 2, or 3) is up that week, and exit the scenario. Then to start fighting you need only:

the pets for that week's group

the pets for the Celestials

your healer (Stinker or substitute)

If you want to accumulate Celestial Coins, it's good to start as soon as you can.

Comment by DarkShade

Working like a charm! First try, first complete win... and without having 2 of the pets at blue quality.

Comment by Chrosta

Dear readers, I am very glad that my guide helped so many people and I would like to thank everyone who rated my guide and wrote me such great comments. It is nice to see that my work was not useless.

Comment by Chrosta

It seems, that my guide will persist throught this patch. GRP2 needs only minor changes and Celestials are the same. Guide will be upgraded next week, all groups together.

Comment by Tharsa

This guide is amazing! I have spend some much time starting to level pets for strategies and then giving up cause I had to level so many. I just wish I found this guide sooner cause after only a little effort I had all the pets ready for this weeks tamers and made it through the tournament without problem.

Comment by Goncalo4051

I am having an issue. There are some pets that are needed in 3+ fights in the same tournanment. Like Chrominius in celestials that is needed in the 4 fights. Since I cant heal the pets, do I need to lvl up more of those repeatable pets?

Comment by FatCheeseMan

Did they increase Xufu's chance to crit? Dear god, my poor chrominus. twice a week last two weeks. Probably best to level another one at this point.

Comment by kumalo

Is there not a way to rate your guide? I just followed this guide and did everything exactly as you said except for I didn't use Legs because he's too expensive on my server right now. It worked flawlessly! The battles were very easy the way you have the strategies setup and what I thought would take me a couple hours took under 30 minutes - and that was my first time doing it and I had to keep alt tabbing to read each step of your guide. Great work! Wish I could give you a thumbs up or something!

Comment by Chrosta

Finally upgrading completed. Guide is rewrote for patch 6.0.2 and you can find all changes in my update list at the end of the guide ...

BTW, now is patch 6.0.3, but no changes in my guide for this patch and wowhead allowed me upgrade only to 6.0.2 :)

Comment by Kamineko

Best. Guide. Ever.

This guide is amazing, and even points out possible weak points in its strategy.

Comment by saulwhite

After I gathered all the required pets as outlined out in this guide I finally decided to give this tournament a go. The good thing is that Chrosta honestly exposes all potential problems in his strategy, so you can mentally prepare yourself for eventual loss. Because in my first attempt Chrominius got brutally wrecked by Xu-Fu, Cub of Xuen. So I got myself a backup Chrominius, and started all over again. The 2nd attempt went like a breeze and I am now the proud owner of Xu-Fu, Cub of Xuen. To make a long story short (I Should Have Never Gone Ziplining); if you're intimidated by the thought of doing this tournament, just use this guide. You will succeed for sure!

Two thumbs up to Chrosta for putting this guide together!

Comment by Vims

Fantastic guide, helped me alot !

You can also use a Mud Jumper from Nagrand(WoD), instead of a Swamp Croaker, as it has the 3 required abilitiesand same speed / hp.

Comment by Darkharmony

Very nice guide indeed. I had been gathering lots more pets and trying to level way more than what was covered in this guide.

If I were to make one suggestion it would be to add the abilities your pet uses in each group selection. So for instance say for going against sully just add something like Swamp Croaker(222). But overall that's the only thing I can really say, each fight was explained pretty well including possible problems.

Comment by Crusalis

So each time I've gotten to Xu'fu, without fail, he crits on either the Pandaren Spirit or ChrominiusDid Blizzard buff this to 90% chance?

Comment by Caradsky

I have been browsing my Pet Journal and I stumbled upon Frostwolf Ghostpup and his ability Haunting Song, doesn't it heal more than Stinkers Bleat?

Comment by bobo54

Spot on guide, thank you for the effort!

Comment by Buruan

Hello,

Thank you so much for this guide, i am almost ready to get started with it, collected all the pets, just leveling them up now.The hardest to get for me was the Scourged Whelpling, and you mention that it should be a H/H, not a P/S.Unfortunately I have a P/S.

Is this a major issue or can it work with P/S as well? Really dont want to farm up another one..... :)

Comment by Mulletizeme

Seeing as I am the most unlucky person on the planet I knew the time would come when my Chrom dies.

I used Core Hound Pup just as well and still beat this thank god.

He has howl and his bite isn't as effective at Surge of Power but it works.

Comment by robbiedehand

Great guide since WoD there an possible replacement for the swamp croaker the Mud Jumper it has both bubble and swarm of flies and it comes in both the exact same breeds even.Also a rather easy to get healer is Red Cricket it has inspiring song and it has a whooping 371 power should give it big heals.

Comment by kabob83

Didn't see it mentioned, but you can also use chi-chi to heal, since he uses tranquility first. However, I understand using yu-la since for that fight you suicide darkmoon zeppelin and so that fight should go last. But prior to that either can be used.

Comment by tarax

For those who don't have Sporeggar Exaled - The Shadow Sporebat from WoD has 5 of the 6 abilities. The differing ability is the level 20 ability (3 slot second row) in which it has barbed stinger vs Confusing Sting.

Comment by Harazi

So, the only thing I'm curious about is this. The strats provided here, is this the way Blizz envisioned the tournament being completed? Because that healing method seems ... exploity? Can't think of a better word. Like, it feels like Blizz wouldn't have implemented the ruleset, particularly for the 4 celestials, if there wasn't a trio of pets that could do that without that weird healing trick.

Comment by Necrosaro420

Would there be an alternative for "Legs"? I have all pets listed except for that one.

Comment by Morgol

Thank you very much for the guide! Got my first Tournament victory :)

Comment by blazedragon1993

Thanks a bunch! Did everthing in the guide and it worked like a charm!

Comment by Sorshana

Chrosta,

Thank you, thank you, THANK YOU for this guide! I'm an avid pet collector and I've been itching to get those Celestial Pets ever since it came out. I've tried countless tactics and teams, usually managing to beat the tamers but always getting tripped up on the sheer power of those Celestials and the inability to bandage or heal them out of combat. I can't believe I didn't think to use a team heal from one of the pets but I'm SO glad you did!

This guide... there are no words to convey how elated I was to complete the Tournament for the first time tonight. I have no doubt it took weeks and/or months of research and your own testing to form this complete of a guide. As others have said, the fact that you point out the flaws and specify so clearly when to forfeit and retry saves anyone that uses your guide so much time and frustration.

Thank you for all the blood, sweat, tears, time and effort you put into this guide. Anyone who asks me about the Tournament from now on will be directed right here.

You're amazing. I just gotta say that. =)

~Sorshana

Comment by Waerloza

Thank you so much for this amazing guide. I know there are other guides around on many sites, but the clarity of this one, and the fact that it doesn't rely on very expensive and/or rare pets is just awesome. With your advice I was able to defeat the Tournament the first time I tried. Thanks again!

Comment by Aussieguyx

I didn't have legs and was unaware you needed a replacement for both fights, so ended up using Chrominius to sacrifice himself on Ion. A good replacement in this case is Alpine Foxling (Kit). Howl > Leap > Flurry. Seems to work better than Howl + SoP in some cases too!

Comment by Angelmichu

apparently I'm the only one who's chrominius died on round 6 of Yula... *sigh*

Comment by Feythion

Hi, i'm brand new to Battle Pet, tournament. I joined the first battle, vs the 3 Groups. But how can you be able to complete all the 4 "Bosses", if you cant heal? You are like using Chrominius, in all 4? Can someone please answer

Comment by Feythion

I dont get this guide... Do you need to let Ion Goldbloom stay to heal? But, you need to use " Darkmoon Zeppelin ", to defeat him, so that Darkmoon Zeppelin will get down on health, and then you need to use him in almost every fight vs the 4 Celestials? Someone help..

Comment by qushayri

I don't yet have Legs or Coilfang Stalker, and I wasn't having much luck with strategies found elsewhere. While looking up strategies for the garrison dailies, I found this use of Bling which worked on Goldbloom's Screamer and avoided Feign Death:

Round 1: Extra PlatingRound 2: Launch Rocket - this readies the rocket, but doesn't fire it yetRound 3 to 5: Inflation - this will put a debuff on him to take double damage. Round 6: Launch Rocket - this actually fires the earlier rocket, killing

No doubt this is RNG-dependent, so I would actually suggest starting with Goldbloom.

All credit goes to Timain's comment found here: Rukus/rukus#comments:id=2092386

Comment by Audumlamari

Your guide worked perfectly for me, up to Yu'La. But Mr. Bigglesworth made quick work of her. Thanks for your efforts.

Comment by wowZhenek

thank you very much for this comprehensive guide. Worked with no problems. Its worth mentioning that when fighting River pet of Wise Mari trainer I didn't even have to use the 3rd one (which is Viscidous globule according to your guide). And I scored no crits or dodged any of the attacks.

Comment by NissaR

After a long time not pet battling, I decided to finally get around to doing this tourney, got the entire list of 'Army', the guide is perfect.

Thank you so much for putting it together so very well :)

Comment by shdwklown

I didn't see this suggestion anywhere, if there is one already I apologize. At any rate, for the Team 1 Strats, I don't have a Legs yet, but I did have a Coilfang Stalker (H/B) and used the set up: Focused Beams/Illusionary Barrier/Surge of Power.

At first, Screamer just wrecked me. But I was determined to get this to work, since I don't want to wait a few weeks for Children's Week to start, to get my Legs.

Originally I was trying to use focused beam in round 2, but that would miss from my barrier being up but the beam is buffed the next round. So using focused beams two more times would always get him to that 50% threshold, he would cast FD and screw up the strat. Usually Trike would come out, and beat my team down pretty hard. I would always lose the Zeppelin. The above strat adjustment worked beautifully though.

Comment by Jaenee

Really great guide! I'm just getting started with pet battles and this info keeps a potentially overwhelming subject organized. I also appreciate that you provided pet substitutions based on their spells :) Helps newbies like me who may not have the most robust menagerie. Thanks!

Comment by Fendoran

Is there an otther pet than Legs becaus i am very unpatient and don't wanna wait till childens Week to obtain this pet :/

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Comment by Bonehead872

Amazing guide! the celestial tournament was always one of my "must do" things and finally was able to today. followed everything the guide said and worked perfectly. now onward to the other 3 pets!

Comment by StarlitRiot

Whoo. I leveled SOOOO many pets in preparation for the tournament then i saw your guide and leveled the remaining ones I didn't have for it already leveled. I ended up beating the tournament no problem. Was one or two times I cringed when I thought a pet might die soon in a fight, but in the end beat it without any trouble. Now only 9x more for 9x more coins for the other 3 pets right? Thanks so much! great guide. Didn't even end up using more than half the pets I originally gathered based on other guides.

Comment by fubar32

Thank you, thank you, thank you. I've gotten through the tournament twice so far using your guide, with no issues. A concise, well-written and easy-to-follow guide that even the non-professional pet battlers can follow. The only pets that are a little tougher to get are Legs and Pandaren Water Spirit. I managed to get both on the AH for reasonable prices, but I do not for a second believe the alleged 10% drop rate on the PWS from the Pandaren Spirit Tamer battle...

Editing to add: I've now defeated all the last set of trainers. As before, with no problems at all!

Comment by Wizairde

Incredible guide, won on first try - walks you through step by step. Updates for WoD are spot on!

Comment by Paganthunder

Thank you again for this guide.

Defeated the Tournament for the first time with no issues at all.

Nice new Cub added to my list.

Comment by Malysef

BEST. GUIDE. EVER.I love how the guide is prepared for us not so experienced in pet battles. Without the guide I would never dare to try the tournament, now I am finishing my collection of pets and will start doing the tournament every week.Thank you Chrosta!

Comment by Hollicow

This guide was amazing! Three days after I found it I had the tournament beaten (had a few pets to level).

It is so clear and easy to follow. Previously I found the idea of the tournament quite daunting, but this made it fool-proof.

I completed it during a week with team one, and I was missing the pet "Legs" and the Tiny Sporebat to beat Sully. I substituted in Chrominius for Legs. Round one I cast Arcane Blast, as Scream ascends for lift off. Round two I used Howl and Round Three used Surge to take out Screamer. This worked perfectly, as per your "Legs" strat. I made sure to have a second Chrominius incase the substitute died, but he survived the fight.

In place of the Tiny Sporebat I used a Mei Li Sparkler, from the Vale of Eternal Blossoms. It has the same abilities as the Sporebat, so the strat was unchanged.

Thanks again for this awesome guide! Couldn't have done it without you :D

Comment by Silphena

I didn't have Legs so I used Sea Pony instead...it worked and healed my pets too...especially Darkmoon Zep

Comment by Silphena

First try, my Chrominus died so I swapped out (which obviously you can do now on the last fight? but it worked) with Mechanical Pandaren Dragonling, Peddlefeet, Coilfang Stalker. I swapped between MPD and Peddlefeet with decoy and Perfumed Arrow...CS dies pretty quickly.

Comment by rgabi92

Best guide ever. I've been leveling all needed pets according to this guide for the past few weeks, and today I've just got Xu fu after my first attempt ! Thank you, really.

Comment by Dawnrider

First time doing this..of course Xu-Fus 5% chance to crit chrominius hits...stuff liek that is why i hate how blizz did the pet battles. having to spend a lot of time doing it, just to fail in the end and having to restart it all over again.

Comment by Kadael

Just made an account to firstly say amazing guide, truly :)

Also a question which may seem stupid to others, but its confusing me. I'm noticing a fair few pets are used more than once. Are they actually the same pet or do you just have more than 1?

Reason I ask and for example, grp 1 sully needs kun-lai runt, in the desc. it says "until dead". But then the runt is needed for another NPC and we cannot ress pets during the tournie.

So this confused me, am I going to need 2 sporebats, 2 kun-lai runts etc, as I'm seeing alot of "will prolly die" or "do <action> until it dies".

I could understand if there was healing between tamers, but writing that it dies, then needing it elsewhere confuses me greatly.

Any help appreciated, especially if its glaringly obvious and I'm just being incredibly thick :D

Comment by TarrynItUp

Thaaaaaankyouuuuuuu! I have been dreaming of owning a celestial pet since Timeless Isle Celestial Tournament went live.. You made this possible for me today. I am now the VERY proud owner of the baby Zao <3 I can not thank you enough, if you are ever on Saurfang drop me a pm and I will give you free things! Haha..... p.s Nevara@saurfang <3

Comment by loony1408

Im confused. Am i suposed to get triple of chrominius, waste spirit and zeppelin? youre using these pets for stage 2 mutiple times, and i tried to use one of each, but they die.

Comment by loony1408

Im confused. Am i suposed to get triple of chrominius, waste spirit and zeppelin? youre using these pets for stage 2 mutiple times, and i tried to use one of each, but they die.

Comment by dixiedelite33

Awesome guide! Thank you so much for writing it! Just did the tournament for the first time. Everything worked just like you said. Got my first celestial pet, Zao, and I love him! Gave your guide 5 stars :)

Comment by anavette

Thank you so so so so so so much for this guide! I beat it today and I owe it all to you!

Comment by grafspe806

Im happy with this guide it gives me a pretty good idea which pets I need to level up to take on the tournament

Comment by Odaxis

It's taken me about a week to get all the pets with all the proper builds

Notated in this strategy is: You will fail this fight if Xu-Fu critically hits in the 7th round.

8 times / 8 attempts he has crit me. Is this now a guaranteed crit? I'm losing faith in this. :(

Comment by AdrienMR

Simply outstanding. Thank you very much!

Comment by Ladyviperx

Your Guide worked magic today! :D i got my xuen cub and im the happiest girl in the world now :D THANK YOU SO MUCH <3

Comment by Vyxxen

Thank you so much for this amazing guide. Have all the pets at 25 and have not once failed the tournament since I found this guide :)

I did find and I'm sure others already know this but Xu-Fu, Zao and Chi-Chi can be beaten with these 2 pets.

Pandaren Water Spirit: Geyser, WhirpoolChrominius: Howl, Surge of Power

Again, great guide and thank you!

Comment by Drukie

My very first time attempting the Celestial Tournament, I used your guide and won every fight without having to redo a single one. EXCELLENT guide, thank you!

Comment by entiquity

Perfect! In every way. I didn't have all the pets from the start, but I took the time to get everything exactly as listed here and it worked absolutely perfect.

Fantastic guide!

Edit*Believe me, if you do not have all the pets suggested in this guide, it is well worth your time to get them. You will have this tournament on farm status. 3 week straight. Perfect success.

Comment by sciuridae

After a few days of leveling I had all 18 pets ready to rumble and managed to win the tournament within the first try. Chrosta you are my hero! Thank you so much.

Comment by robot1971

Did something change for the crit percentage on Xu-Fu? For as many times as it's happened it HAS to be greater than 5%. So far 3 out of 4 times it's ended my attempt.

Comment by Eaglecreek49

This guide needs some tune ups. Screamer uses Lift Off first so Double pump from Legs is a sure Fail. Ive been using this guide for awhile and I appreciate the great work put into it, its been a lifesaver in terms of time spent and the memory of an old man isnt so good either. Dr Ion Goldbloom fight could use some slight changes though for sure.

Comment by Xynya

I just don't know how to thank you for this guide. After so many tries and near to give up, I now know precisely what to do and what were my Team flaws. Hope is back! Thanks!

Comment by AciDDreamZ

Stinker; Which trainer battle is best to start for team healing with Stinker?

Comment by Caellyn

Your guide is fantastic! Works every time! Thank you for helping me on my journey to get all the tournament pets. I'm working on getting my last on now.

Comment by smoknaintez

10 thumbs up

Comment by Hampsterr

This helped me so much! Thank you!

Comment by yager05

I myself found the howlbomb working quite fine on the celestials. After I found this out, went and got 2 more water spirit and 1 more chrominius (since i had 1 water spirit and 2 chrominius). Used the micro sentry - zandalari combo for Zao then raped the others with howlbomb. I personally find it simplier to just nuke 'em.

Comment by plf2102

Took a month to get the darkmoon zepplin because i read this guide the day after it ended.... other than that i think the red cricket is a good substitute for stinker, Flawless guide!

Comment by Chrono20

This guide is dead on! Worked like a charm the first time.

The only issue i had was, I didn't have the pet . I tried using a colfang stalker etc, but just never worked. So i waited and found for 9.5K in the AH well worth it!

Thanks again for an awesome guide!

Comment by Tylai

I wanted to say that today, I finally earned my Celestial Family achievement, and it's all because of your guide. I used to be incredibly intimidated by the celestial tournament and figured I'd never be a good enough pet battler to ever beat it. You made it simple and easy. Thank you.

Comment by BrianT888

Hi, this is a great guide. Thank you for putting it together!

Quick question: Do all of the captured pets have to be of Rare quality for this to work? The only element I'm missing is a Rare Swamp Croaker (I think I have an Uncommon one, but I can't remember), and I don't look forward to trying to farm an Aquatic battle-stone to upgrade the frog.

Comment by Zarcelito

Seems things has changed in patch 6.2.0.

I had to defeat Ion Goldbloom with an alternate strategy since following your guide ended in killing my team.

Xu-Fu and Chi-Chi could barely be defeated if you are lucky and none of them makes a critical.

Anyway, by the time you fight Zao, those pets that you recommend are too low on HP. When Pandaren Spirit casts Geyser, Zao kills him, ruining all the strategy.

I can't imagine how you could reach and defeat Yu'la, even if for some reason the stars get aligned and Zao didn't killed your pets by that time.

Maybe this guide worked on previously patches, but now it's outdated.

Comment by Gryphan22

I Found a great replacement for Legs!

Using Mini Mindslayer with Mana Surge, Amplify Magic, and Life Exchange. Start with Amplify Magic on Screamer then cast Mana Surge. Screamer died for me after the second round of Mana Surge. When Chaos came out he was hit with the last Mana Surge and I followed it up with Life Exchange. At this point Chaos had only half health but my attacks are were on cooldown so he killed my Mindslayer. I brought in my Scourged Whelpling and spammed Tail Sweep to kill Chaos. I continued spamming Tail Sweep on Trikes until he died and I never even got to my Darkmoon Zeppelin. I hope this can help those like me that don't have legs.

Comment by jesswhitlock

What an amazing guide! Worked like a charm, first try. Thank u SO much!

..only problem now is deciding which Celestial pet to choose first. They're all freaking adorbs! :)

Comment by Grizzlegom

Firstly, thanks for the guide, it was a great resource when I ran into a problem fight!

I wanted to share something I really enjoyed finding when trying to kill Xu-Fu. I don't have Darkmoon Zepp so my Howl/Bomb team died taking out Yu-la. Xu-Fu then methodically tore through team after team (I have 50 max level pets, I think he took out 20ish). The team I ended up finding to take him out was Crazy Carrot/Ikky/X.

Xu-Fu will end up taking out Ikky but between Black Claw and Flock, the Blistering Cold ticks will kill Xu-Fu and your final pet won't even have to enter the battlefield.

Comment by Voxxel

Thanks for the guide, I found it very useful!

Don't really know what changed since MoP but there's one part that needs to be revisited:

Taran Zhu: With the given line-up (ghostly skull, fossil hatchling, tiny sporebat) and the given breeds, I can't get even close to beat those monks. Tried 7 times in a row: no bad crits / no good crits but at half of the fight it's already lost, over and over. After the 2nd BONESTORM the fossilized hatchling is already dead by Bolo's counterhit, or it survives with <5% HP. In the next turn (or 1 more), my Ghostly Skull also gets raped by Bolo every time, despite the selfheals.

To counter this problem, I used an easy combo of Ruby Droplet (H/S) 2,2,2 and Garden Moth (H/S) 2,1,2, I didn't even need a 3rd pet. Surprisingly, the Ruby Droplet was almost able to solo all 3 pandarens (with some luck), but is totally able to kill the first 2 even without luck. The Moth can kill the last guy in a few turns aswell.

Other than that, I followed your guide precisely and everything worked well. Nice work!

Comment by DestronatorEUFM

What do I do if the pet I need dies? Should I just leave the scenario and go again or what? :P

Comment by Sterling

With WoD, a good alternative to Stinker is the Pygmy Cow. It is another easy to get pet with a stronger heal. Since you are only using the pet to heal your others, its Mother's Milk ability heals for a lot more. It is no big deal either way, but you may save yourself a round or two healing using it instead of Stinker.

Comment by Jendal

Your guide is fantastic! This helped me so much! Thank you!

Comment by Chrosta

Due to last posts, guide tested in last three weeks on patch 6.2.0. All strategies work without changing.

If you have some problems with completing Tournament, say exactly where the problem is. Comment with "guide is outdated and not working" really not help, because that problem is mostly between chair and keyboard ... :D

Comment by Sicchan

I'm a new player, so I have to w8 for Legs, what do you think about:-Chrominius with Surge of Power for defeat Ion Goldbloom-Sea Pony with Pump (And almost 276 of Speed) for defeat Blingtron 4000Thanks for the answer ^^

Comment by thebl4ckd0g

you pretty much need 3 Chrominius' and 3 pandaren water spirits to successfully do this. you could probably swap them out for water wavelings, as they do similar attacks. maybe a core hound pup and 2 chrominius'.

Comment by Wheeljack

I DID IT! I finally beat the tournament thanks to this awesome, awesome guide. Collected pets, aiming for the correct breeds according to this, and completed the tournament for the first time today following the guide step by step. Great job sir. Many, MANY +1 from me.

The tips about healing pets back up with Stinker was invaluable.

The only "critical" phase is if Chrominius dies on step 7 of the Xuen-fight, but if you have an additional Chrom for backup, you should be golden.

Comment by Zarcelito

You need more than 18 pets. Precisely, you need more than one Pandaren Water Spirit, Darkmoon Zeppelin and Chrominius.

Comment by ngempuq

I dont usually comment on wowhead, but I simply have to thank you for making this guide avaliable. I'm achievementhunting, currently at 23100, and you have no idea how much pain and suffering this guide have saved me from.

Thank you!, Blizz should make you a statue next to the celestial court!

Comment by Kaldorai

This is like the best guide ever, works 100%, thank you

Comment by Fizzlestix

Amazing guide! Would have defeated Group 2 on my very first attempt if it wasn't for bad RNG against Xu-Fu. He killed my Chrominius with a normal and critical hit, and then again after I had reset the scenario. So as mentioned in the guide, I bought a second Chrominius to make sure I wouldn't get screwed over by more bad luck!

Tldr: Buy a second Chrominius to be safe!

Comment by Saille

This is absolutely, ABSOLUTELY amazing! Thank you so much, couldn't do it without you as I'm not that great at pet battling but you make it a song! :)

A note - for healing my pets between the legendary fights I used Marsh Fiddler/marsh-fiddler with Inspiring Song/inspiring-song. Perfect!

Comment by sinestra139

Thanks so much for this guide - amazing work! The method for the Celestials is brilliant and works like magic every time. I did swap in some of my own pet combinations based on type match ups for the pet battle trainers where I didn't have all the pets you used levelled up. So I only had to level Pandaren Water Spirit to win the tournament - managed to do on the first day I tried it.

Comment by violetfemme

Thanks so much for this guide! I had done the tournament regularly when it first came out and was only missing one pet to have all 4. But with so much time spent in Draenor lately, I had forgotten all my planned moves and team alternates (in case one died). I found your guide, leveled a few pets up to create the teams you suggest and finished in record time!

Thank you also, for explaining the healing strategy with Stinker. I had never before used it and found it to be so much easier than having alternates in case a fight went bad! Anyone who is having trouble (at least with Group1 and the celestials) has to remember to quit the fight and heal up if there are problems and be sure to heal all 3 pets between each celestial.

Comment by Jolkster

Thank you so much for this. The guide was absolutely amazing, easy to follow and worked like a charm.

Comment by Belligerence

One of the best ever guides published by Wowhead. Excellent work, helped me a great deal.

Comment by AllureMG

Awesome! Awesome! Awesome! I hate to repeat what everyone else has said, but I can't help it! This guide worked for me the first time I tried it! I love you!

Comment by Rosekitten

I absolutely love the guide and it works! However, I have found that Bonkers can solo Yu'la easily.

Use Tornado Punch in the first turn. (If it doesn't stun the first time, retreat and try again)Use Jab until the turn that Yu'la is up in the air.Use Dodge(Always save for when Yu'la is up in the air)Murder with Tornado punch on cooldown with Jabs between. You'll make quick work of the fight.

You can use your Zepplin's explode if Yu'la manages to kill Bonkers (Really unlucky).

Comment by cordell9

AWESOME guide!

I had been fighting against this tournament for a long time, simply because I wanted to try a different strat other than howl bomb.. Just being stubborn I guess. I finally committed myself to finishing it for the goal not for the adventure and everything went exactly as laid out here.

If you are new here, scroll down you don't actually need 18 pets you can start with less depending on what tamers you fight that week. Essentially you would never need all 18, just the ones for the week that you wanted to concentrate on. Had I known that I probably would have started earlier.

got my first pet in week 1 and am happy now

Comment by Jean77

Eagerly awaiting your Tanaan Jungle Tiny Terror guide...

Comment by Shoadowolf

Thank you so much for this guide! Took me a while to get the pets I needed, but it was worth it in the long run! I am now a proud owner of Xu-Fu, Cub of Xuen (he is ADORABLE, by the way :D). Can't wait to collect the rest!

Comment by Muel

How can I give this more than 5 stars?

Comment by mikeyt

I have to admit I never tried the tournament when the timeless isle came out, it sounded too intimidating and confusing until I came across this guide and voila! Using the guide i won and got my first celestial pet. Kudos to an awesome guide. Still relevant even today XD.

Comment by Manniala

Think the guide is way to annoying to read, way way way way way way to many flower power colors, would rather just have regular text then link to the skills, i do not care much about having to see the popup about it, sorry man, but i just cant stand reading this :/

Make a plane version also...

Comment by mechanicarts

First of all thanks for this guide! It was a fun adventure capturing and leveling these pets...

and finding their substitutes!

I don't have Darkmoon Zeppelin and I just decided to do Celestial yesterday..it's the last week of February and I didn't want to wait 2 weeks for Darkmoon (none at the AH). I was unlucky enough to have to use my Mechanical Pandaren Dragonling at the starting trainers (it's a great sub for Zeppelin) and it was dead. So I had to improvise.

I used Sunreaver Micro-Sentry with great success (it never died). Where Darkmoon Zepp was used for soaking damage I used this and always with Laser, Haywire and Call Lightning. You just have to be careful to not keep Haywiring when you need to switch for combo!

Comment by sikolik

thx a lot for this guide and btw for wise mari i didn't even use the viscidus globule because mechanical pandaren dragonling killed river as well :D

Comment by Troelsy

This is a great guide!

I was wondering however. You say you use Stinker and Bleat!. He is a P/P breed. But I was wondering if Red Cricket Inspiring Song wouldn't heal for more as it has 370 power?

I don't have Stinker maxed but I can inform that according to tooltip Red Cricket Inspiring Song heals for 234.

Comment by Serverisera

Very awesome and detailed guide! I have had 100% victory everytime. At Yu'la, I preferred to use Sunflower since it has that sunlight that boosts healing to heal my back pets :3

Comment by daishi86

Thanks for this amazing guide, Chrosta! Within a few days I had all the pets needed and can now get the rare pets from the coins before Legion nerfs the pws + cromi combo :D thank you thank you thank you!

Since my H/H Jungle Grub had not been levelled and also was only POOR quality, I tried substituting Devouring Maggots in both H/H and H/S breeds to no avail. I had already levelled the grub to 25 but had not stoned him RARE yet. By this time I had concluded that my problem was lack of speed (bludgeoning was SEVERE, but almost making it lol) and since my Jungle Grub was of the slower breed I looked for a new approach...

Comment by EtnaAD

Amazing guide! Thank you!

My only issue was that the Tiny Sporebat never could live long enough. Essentially, not enough total damage would be dealt to kill the 2nd pet before the Darkmoon Zeppelin would die. Had many many failed attempts with this.The Unborn Val'kyr worked as a great replacement for the Tiny Sporebat. Curse of Doom, then Shadow Shock until it dies. Then use Unholy Ascension on the immortal round. That extra 25% pushed me over.

Edit: Repeated myself!

Comment by anbuhq

Best guide out there, thank you so much for it :)

Are you planing updating the guide for Legion since GWHS is gone?

Comment by JSMaTT

Just another guy posting that this guide helped me one shot this without any prior knowledge of how this event worked.

Comment by leduk

Pandaren Water Spirit has been so nerfed... god damn it... the method for the end is now useless, unless we find another combo.

Comment by bipolargirl

As of Patch 7.0.3 Pandarian Water Spirit's abilities have been changed. The combination with Chrominius doesn't work as well as it has before. Whirlpool & Geyser now share the same attack button. You can only choose one of those attacks to fight.

Comment by bipolargirl

As of Patch 7.0.3 Pandaren Water Spirit's abilities have been changed so it is no longer effective against Xu-Fu.The combination with Chrominius doesn't work now since Whirlpool & Geyser now share the same attack button. You can only choose one of those attacks to fight.

Comment by Akarillon

The Legion patch has destroyed the last part of this guide. Pandaren Water Spirit no longer has whirlpool, but instead a heal.

Comment by thebl4ckd0g

so the strategy against Xu-Fu will not work any longer, bc the Pandaren Water Spirit no longer has Whirlpool and Geyser available to use at the same time.

Comment by Lanalethal

GUIDE OUTDATED - Pandaren Water Spirit was nerfed at new patch

Comment by SnowyRow

So.... I loved this guide, and with this expansion have just been putting some time into acquiring past pets. But with the latest patch (7.0), this guide needs some adjusting. >.< Will you be coming back to it? Thanks!

Comment by Fermander

FOR THOSE LOOKING FOR LEGION ALTERNATIVES:

This obviously won't be any one-shot combo working on all 4 celestials, however they are working alternatives.

This one is quite lengthy compared to the others, however it only takes one pet and it's almost a 100% success rate, also the pet is easy to get, so why not.

Hope this helps to anyone looking to beat the celestials after the Howl bomb nerf, I'm sorry if anyone is offended by me stealing other people's strategies, but I just thought it might be nice putting them all in one place.

Comment by Skitstorm

I followed the guide provided by Fermander except for the fight against Yu'la, Broodling of Yu'lon. Instead I used´:Grommloc: Vicious Slice, Clobber and TakedownAnubisath Idol: DeflectionBonkers: Jab,Dodge, Haymaker(there's better alternatives than Bonkers, like the Kun'lai Runt with Takedown, Frost Shock and Deep Freeze but mine was dead due to earlier encounter).

1. Vicious Slice2. Clobber3. Takedown4. Swap to Anubisath Idol5. Use deflection6. Swap to Bonkers or something else7. Use one oneround attack (Haymaker)8. Again (Jab)9. Again (Jab)10. Swap to Anubisath Idol11. Deflection12. Swap to Grommlock and start from step 1.

Bonkers was there to soak some dmg and get a little damage in on her.

Comment by whysmerill

The patch 7.0.3 changed the Pandaren Water Spirit abilities. Now Geyser and Whirlpool share the same slot, and thus the strategy for the celestials of this guide can't be used anymore.

Comment by Lockbunny

Hey, I just wanted to say great guide and its helped a lot, GREAT JOB! As of legion pre-patch, they changed the talents for the Pandaren Water Spirit so you have to choose between Whirlpool and Geyser and can not have both. Im honestly too lazy to come up with a plan on my own and just wanted to give you all a heads up. Thanks, and good luck :)

Comment by Urbesterx

Any updates for Legion for the last part ?

Still need 2 celestial pets :D actually 4wins

Comment by ayeee

This tournament made me so angry i was ready to throw my pc out of the window.All i waned was a god damn tiger ffs!

Comment by Humay

Wont work even for non celestials

Comment by wbehri01

Can confirm that as of May 9, 2017 all 3 weeks with the guide's battle pets work perfectly. If you're not up to date you will not be able to howl bomb the celestials. I would recommend using Xu-fu's tournament planner. I use 834171985 for the celestials. It requires 8 pets that are not used for any of the trainers.